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A volte basta una sola nota per accendere tutto.
Not everybody likes us, but we drive folks wild.
We all know the frustration: youβre making great time on the bus until someone parks in the bus lane βjust for a minute.β In Chicago, those minutes have added up to decades of declining speedsβbut thatβs about to change.
In part two of our Chicago series, weβre diving deep into the massive changes coming to the CTA and Pace bus systems. Thanks to the landmark NITA Act passed in late 2025, Chicago is receiving $1.5 billion a year in new funding to avoid the transit death spiral andβmore importantlyβto finally give buses the priority they deserve.
From automated camera enforcement to "orbital" lines that bypass the Loop, weβre looking at how Chicago is speeding up the least glamorous but critical piece of its transit system. Because at the end of the day, faster buses donβt just mean shorter commutesβthey mean freedom.
In this video, we cover:
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